Surface heating of wire plasmas using laser-irradiated cone geometries

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 853-856

  Green, J S ^a,b   Lancaster, K L ^a   Akli, K U ^c,d   Gregory, C D ^e   Beg, F N ^f   Chen, S N ^f   Clark, D ^g   Freeman, R R ^g   Hawkes, S ^a   Hernandez Gomez, C ^a   Habara, H ^h   Heathcote, R ^a   Hey, D S ^c,d   Highbarger, K ^g   Key, M H ^c   Kodama, R ^h   Krushelnick, K ⁱ   Musgrave, I ^a   Nakamura, H ^h   Nakatsutsumi, M ^h   Patel, N ^d   Stephens, R ^j   Storm, M ^k   Tampo, M ^h   Theobald, W ^k   Van Woerkom, L ^g   Weber, R L ^g   Wei, M S ^f,j   Woolsey, N C ^e   Norreys, P A ^a,b   more..

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^j GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF STATE; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; PLASMA SIMULATION; WIRE; X RAYS;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; EQUATION OF STATE; HARD X-RAY SOURCES; HIGH ENERGY DENSITY PHYSICS; HIGH ENERGY DENSITY SCIENCE; HYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENT; NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY;

HIGH ENERGY LASERS;

EID: 36749026699     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys755     Document Type: Article

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